Nonveridicality and Evaluation

Nonveridicality and evaluation interact in obvious ways in conveying opinion and subjectivity in language. In Nonveridicality and Evaluation Maite Taboada and Radoslava Trnavac bring together a diverse group of researchers with interests in evaluation, Appraisal, nonveridicality and coherence relations. The papers in the volume approach the intersection of these areas from two different points of view: theoretical and empirical. From a theoretical point of view, contributions reflect the interface between evaluation, nonveridicality and coherence. The empirical perspective is shown in papers that employ corpus methodology, qualitative descriptions of texts, and computational implementations.

Maite Taboada is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics.Ongoing research includes opinion and sentiment in text, coherence in multimodal documents, and cataphoric relations.Radoslava Trnavac is a Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Program (Simon Fraser University, Canada). She works in the areas of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis. Her current research addresses the interaction between coherence, cataphora, and event structure.Contributors include: Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Baptiste Chardon, Anastasia Giannakidou, Cliff Goddard, Oliver Gros, Yannick Matthieu, Jacques Moeschler, Vladimir Popescu, Ted Sanders, Manfred Stede, Ninke Stukker, and Michele Zappavigna.